Stephen Colbert Quotes

When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.

I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.

My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, "What are you gonna do about it?"

I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're Catholic.

What kind of a god is it that's upset by a cartoon in Danish?

I am amazed that the Pope gave an audience to such a degenerate. [Martin Luther King Jr.]

I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.

In the States anything dealing with religion, people go nuts, because they are nuts.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.

I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care ... but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks ... you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?

Donald Trump has consistently insulted Muslims abroad, Muslims at home, when we need to be cooperating with Muslim nations and with the American Muslim community.

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

You cannot insult the faith of others.

There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

You don't need any courage today in Germany to make a movie about the Nazi time. You get all the subsidies, you get the TV stations, you get the good reviews. But you need courage to kick in the balls all the people that are still hiding under the blanket, and to say, "Oh, Adolf Hitler was maybe not so bad." And with my little Nazi jokes in Postal, I offended the Germans in a harsh time.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.

In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.